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This yr, several queer people across Arizona have told @lookoutnews.bsky.social that they're worried abt their right to same-sex marriage. I consulted w/legal experts on what they say is more likely to happen & how folks can better prepare for the future. Share: www.lookoutnews.org/getting-your...

crossover of multiple faves wow

Hunter Schafer announced in an 8+ min video that her new passport misgenders her, presumably because of Trump's announcement that the US govt only recognize gender as assigned at birth. she (rightly) connects it to fascist history, like Nazis burning the Institute of Sexology in 1933 @teenvogue.com

hey that’s the back of my head!

Condé Nast management will start requiring employees to be in the office 4 days a week on 3/3, allegedly to make us more productive. Yet for months, many of us have gone without desks, often being forced to work from the cafeteria, HR floor or hallways.

lord knows I try

Bluesky... why are you "adult content moderating" a nonbinary person's top surgery scars... 😀😀😀😀😀

are there any @yellowjackets96.bsky.social fans on here 👀❤️‍🩹🐝🥩 talked to 🦌👑 Sophie Thatcher about Yellowjackets Season 3, her new horror flick Companion, and making art about bodily autonomy while politicians target the notion itself (and David Lynch AND David Byrne lol, plus more??) @teenvogue.com

Minnie Bruce Pratt at a May Day immigration rally in the disability support car and driving home after, by Leslie Feinberg :-)

As the Trump administration tries to erase their identities, these college students are founding a group to cultivate transgender leaders across the country.

"where are all the protests?" read our series showing the legacy of both the Trump and Biden admins—from BLM in the 2010s, to Standing Rock, to George Floyd, to the Palestine encampments—as protest suppression and criminalization. politicians want to call blocking traffic and masking "terrorism."

UPDATE: A major storm system with a deadly mix of heavy rains, winds and flash flooding swept through a large swath of the Southeast overnight, causing at least 11 fatalities in Kentucky and one in Georgia.

if you work for the IRS, i’d like to chat. message me on signal at marisakabas.04

“If we’re going to strategize and be honest about where we have to go,” she said, “we have to look back.”

transphobia is a labor issue and that’s part of why politicians are always trying to belittle it

watching two grown adult writers I vehemently dislike argue with each other on here, thus insuring both have bad days, this site is really growing into itself <3

When you share this image, you are blindly repeating one of the most unapologetic, vile pieces of transphobia ever uttered on television. Spitting on Brandon Teena's grave for Internet points. I'm posting this because I still see it randomly posted without any context.

the family of Sam Nordquist, whose violent murder was publicized Friday (with little other details of his life), is $5k away from their goal to cover expenses related to bringing him home from out of state and a funeral. (ty for link @berlantbro-more.bsky.social)

learn about the Black Panther Party free breakfast program learn about the Zapatista uprising learn about Jane learn about the Kensington Welfare Rights Union learn about STAR learn about Act Up learn about the Battle of Blair Mountain learn about the Spanish Civil War we are not the first

I had such a fun convo with Rainesford and it’s so cool to be involved in any way in such a lovely piece!! Shoutout to all the long distance besties🫡 Voice note propaganda is thriving🙏🏽

While Sam's death is turned into true crime spectacle for cis audiences, there's so far been zero info on who he was, his life, his hobbies, his friends, what he liked to do in his spare time, if he-

I’ve heard some stories recently of people complying with fascists’ demands after they were threatened. As a violence researcher (and someone who has received a good deal of threats), everyone should know that complying will not save you. It only teaches the threatener that threats work.

Breaking: A federal judge sides with Washington, Oregon, and Minnesota and has just blocked Trump's anti-trans EO banning care under the age of 19 via a TRO. This is the second federal judge in a row to conclude that the President's EO is likely unconstitutional.

can’t stop thinking about 24-year-old Sam Nordquist, feel too scared to share information about what happened to him with the fragile mental health of the trans people around me rn, feel terrified of what we’ll learn when more details come out and what more will come to pass under this admin

SCOOP: A group including Columbia alumni, professors & parents is trying to get students deported & arrested and urged people to tip off FBI. They’ve also disparaged Jewish protesters & tried to compile lists of JVP members. W/ @natashalennard.bsky.social theintercept.com/2025/02/15/c...